Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Bigtable V2 Client class Family.
Specifies (some of) the contents of a single row/column family intersection
of a table.
Generated from protobuf messagegoogle.bigtable.v2.Family
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Bigtable \ V2
Methods
__construct
Constructor.
Parameters
Name
Description
data
array
Optional. Data for populating the Message object.
↳ name
string
The unique key which identifies this family within its row. This is the same key that's used to identify the family in, for example, a RowFilter which sets its "family_name_regex_filter" field. Must match[-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+, except that AggregatingRowProcessors may produce cells in a sentinel family with an empty name. Must be no greater than 64 characters in length.
Must not be empty. Sorted in order of increasing "qualifier".
getName
The unique key which identifies this family within its row. This is the
same key that's used to identify the family in, for example, a RowFilter
which sets its "family_name_regex_filter" field.
Must match[-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+, except that AggregatingRowProcessors may
produce cells in a sentinel family with an empty name.
Must be no greater than 64 characters in length.
Returns
Type
Description
string
setName
The unique key which identifies this family within its row. This is the
same key that's used to identify the family in, for example, a RowFilter
which sets its "family_name_regex_filter" field.
Must match[-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+, except that AggregatingRowProcessors may
produce cells in a sentinel family with an empty name.
Must be no greater than 64 characters in length.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
string
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getColumns
Must not be empty. Sorted in order of increasing "qualifier".
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